Oops: Failed U.S. Moon Lander Now Hurtling Back TOWARDS Earth

Breitbart ^ | 15 Jan 2024 | Simon Kent

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The NASA-backed Peregrine One moon lander is now hurtling back towards Earth after last week failing on its historic journey.

Astrobotic, which had been hoping to hoping to land the first American-made spacecraft on the Moon in more than 50 years, predicts its spacecraft will likely burn up in the atmosphere in the next few days, the BBC reports.

Experts had been working with NASA and other space companies to find the most safe and responsible way of ending Peregrine’s mission.

[calljack]

Not this again. Moon orbiters have pictures

[martin_fierro]

Send FReepmail if yunz want on/off BPT list, 'n'at

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Astrobotic's luminaries, based in the 'Burgh

[smokingfrog]

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-join-astrobotics-media-call-on-peregrine-mission-one-status

[HIDEK6]

D. E. I. fail.

[BenLurkin]

Which ones are the DEI hires?

[SeekAndFind]

Betcha this American Moon Lander costs 10 times more than the one made by India that successfully landed on the dark side of the moon.

[rdcbn1]

Yeah, I read the blurb. Pretty disturbing on many different levels. The lack of critical thinking in the drafting is appalling - “NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon”.

Notice the blurb does not say anything about returning that woman or person of color safely back to the earth - a mission goal that JFK was pretty emphatic about when he launched the first space race to the moon.

Thinking I would skip this project.

[rdcbn1]

Gone are the days of pocket protectors for engineers , or so it seems

[TexasFreeper2009]

in 1969 we got the best of the best, today everyone hired is a DEI hire.

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Betcha this American Moon Lander costs 10 times more than the one made by India that successfully landed on the dark side of the moon.

You got me wondering, so I looked it up:

They're actually surprisingly comparable: Chandraayan-3 cost ~$77 million, while Peregrine cost $79 million originally, which ballooned up to $108 million- but Peregrine also had more sensors embarked on it, and 2 rovers to Chandraayan-3's single rover.

And don't forget, Chandraayan-1 (an orbiter) ($116M corrected for inflation) failed less than halfway through its expected minimum mission length, and the Chandrayaan-2 lander (117.6M corrected for inflation) failed on descent and crashed.

I suspect that if NASA hadn't contracted this out to a private company, your suspicion would be absolutely correct (with the possible amendment of adding something like "and ended up 7 years behind schedule")

[catnipman]

rocket science: keep blowing shit up until something flies, now new and improved with more DEI!

[NorthMountain]

Please provide any concrete evidence you have that woke hiring practices at Astrobotic were related to the failure of their spacecraft.

[al baby]

With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon,

first sentence i stopped reading afterit

[al baby]

They all look like they fondled themselves be hide the agapanthus in grade school

[9YearLurker]

I’ll give you the microchip, but IMO the rest of your points are open to question.

[9YearLurker]

India has 3X our population; but, as I understand it, the US has 50X their national debt.

[aquila48]

How far we’ve crashed! Even India has surpassed us in getting to the moon!

Not to mention China!

[martin_fierro]

hide the agapanthus

Had to look that up.

Look at you, all scientific 'n' sheet.

[Aevery_Freeman]

From your post:

<>"With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before."<>

The rest to soon follow.

Seems a bit misogynistic and homophobic for a "Muslim Outreach" agency.

[Mogger]

Seems the racist leftists figure if things go bad the DEI moonbats are expendable.